Brewer

Team Riders: Myles Padaca

Raised in the Long Beach California area, Dick Brewer came from two generations of engineers. Blessed with the brainpower, skill and aptitude it takes to be a designer he would have been successful at any profession he chose. He chose surfing.
Life and a deep sense of adventure took him to Hawaii and in 1959 Dick began on a journey that he would continue for the rest of his life. He founded Surfboards Hawaii in 1961 and never looked back. In the 60’s Brewer worked along side such notable shapers as Bing Copeland, Hobie Alter, Rich Harbour & Duke Boyd. In 1965 Hobie Alter hired Dick to shape big wave boards exclusively. The Hobie "Dick Brewer Gun" evolved. During the 70’s he continued his work on the Mini-gun and continued to shape shorter boards. One notable board he developed during this period he called the "flip-tip." Ridden by Reno Abillera, the "flip-tip" was the sensation of the '69 Huntington Beach contest. Soon after Dick Brewer Surfboards was born.

Dick went back to the south side of Kauai, where he spent the better part of the next ten years in seclusion developing new shapes and designs with Gerry Lopez. Dick and Gerry would shape a new model and take it out to a little known Kauai surfspot to test it out. Lopez would put his Brewer mini-gun designs to the test on the North Shore and he and Dick would fine tune and refine them together.

Throughout the 90’s Dick continued to innovate and advance his design skills working on the development of towboards with Laird Hamilton, Derrick Doerner, and Buzzy Kerbox. Brewer continues to be heavily involved in the evolution of the sport, constantly shaping new towboards with different foils and contours, and experimenting with different woods and materials.

Now Dick Brewer hopes to share his handiwork with surfers worldwide by offering five Brewer models in Tuflite Technology. Riding a Brewer means riding over 40 years of research, development, refinement and boards that have been tested by legendary surfers and modern day big wave matadors.